Wired: Conversation With Marc Andreessen

WEBINAR:On-Demand

"Andreessen: There was a huge amount of browser
development from 1993 to 1998, then nothing much happened from 1998
to 2002. Now, there's a huge number of people doing all kinds of
things and you've got real innovation going on.

"WN: Why now?

"Andreessen: When Mozilla opened source code in
1998, everyone expected things to happen overnight. But it took a
few years for the project to catalyze. Now people have an
open-source alternative that's fast and free and works. The user
interface is definitely getting better, and over the last four or
five years, dynamic HTML and JavaScript have gotten more
sophisticated as a UI platform.

"WN: Of the browsers available today, which do
you prefer?

"Andreessen: I'm using Mozilla pretty much full
time. I switched six or nine months ago. I had been using IE for
three or four years before, because it was rendering page views
faster. But now Mozilla does it faster..."

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